An American hospital reconstituted in tribute to Cecil Breeden

For the sixtieth anniversary of the Landing, seven collectors' clubs from northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands have reconstituted an American hospital in the town of Vierville-sur-Mer. An operating room was in this camp open to the public. The tribute was dedicated to nurse Cecil Breeden; his two brothers, veterans of the Landing, were expected on Friday afternoon.

The one hundred and thirty collectors installed on site had arrived the previous weekend with more than two hundred tons of equipment. Jean-Luc Ghisquier, head of the camp, stressed that some Dutch people had traveled more than fifteen hundred kilometers at the wheel of GMCs or jeeps.

The cut presents Cecil Breeden as a nurse on Company A of the 116th U.S. Infantry Regiment and reports that he had landed with his unit at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The cut stops after the presentation of its landing. It links the 116th regiment to the "1st D.I. The Big Red One"; this attachment is not verified here and is not taken up as an established fact.

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